“It’s actually a moment I cant talk about, because my favourite bit of E3 was finding out about all the cool third party stuff that’s coming for the Wii U, which they decided not to talk about, which was awesome. So I just want to say yeah, there’s loads of third party stuff coming which I reckon we might see at Gamescom, or we might see at TGS, but its coming. That was my favourite bit because everyone was saying “No one’s bringing out anything for Wii U”, and I saw some cool things.”

Various other sources discussing the third-party support for Wii U can be found at the source. So, I guess we should all keep our fingers crossed for the upcoming events.

Most of the third party stuff they showed off at E3 this year was Ubisoft. I like Ubisoft (and they had a great showing), but they've supported the Wii like crazy, so nothings really changed there. (Watch Dogs for the Wii U would be nice.) Meanwhile, companies like EA and Activision only threw out basic versions of most of their games to the Wii. I don't remember hearing too much about their support of the Wii U which is troubling to me. (Please, correct me if I'm wrong).

Then there are other companies like Rockstar (just one example, because there are rumors of GTA 5 coming to the WII U) that didn't support the Wii at all. Unless Nintendo can pull some more of them in, I'll remain skeptical. Seeing Batman: AC is nice, but it's been out for several months already. I hope more comes from Rocksteady in the future. Same goes for Darksiders 2. Hoping to see other big THQ titles like Homefront 2, Saints Row 4 (long ways away, but ya know).

To be fair, they didn't port them over to the Wii because it couldn't handle a lot of the actual game without dumbing some things down. Like Iwata said, it's getting harder to tell the graphical differences of the game, and the WiiU can't be that much more powerful than the 360 or PS3, so it wouldn't surprise me seeing EA and Activision games over on the WiiU.Sure they may not do much to utilize the controller, but you never know.

That being said, I'm excited for 3rd party titles. Nintendo has some of the best exclusives (right up there with the PS3), and obviously there's a lot of third party games I like, so having one console for both, instead of a WiiU and an Xbox or PS3, would be great.

Rockstar did some stuff early in Wii's life span, a Bully port, a heavily censored Manhunt 2, and their table tennis game if I remember correctly. They just didn't find success, so they didn't stick around.

E3 for Nintendo was focused only on stuff coming this year, stuff in the release window. This means games coming in 2013, save a few mentions like Rayman Legends, weren't talked about at all. I imagine that a lot of third parties are either porting stuff over but need more time to do so or are in "wait and see" mode to see how the console performs in the market.

Also, Nintendo's E3 was very targeted at western audiences, I felt like. Ubisoft and Warner Bros. were featured heavily, with most of the sizzle reel focused on Western games as well. The only exception I can think of is Tekken and Tanks x3 from Namco. Oh, and Ninja Gaiden, I guess. We saw nothing at all from Square Enix, Capcom, Konami, etc. It will be interesting to see if we see more Japanese titles get announced around Tokyo Game Show, since they have to launch with something in Japan as well.

Either way, I'm sure third parties will find some excuse not to develop for Nintendo platforms. Why compete with Mario directly when you have other options?

bbb7002004, I don't think that's necessarily the case. Well, maybe it will be in terms of exclusive content for the WiiU, but as for multi-platform games, releasing it on another console means more sales in total, which is something EA wants.

Besides, nothing stopped developers from releasing games even around the time that CoD games come out, and they have a massive following. So I don't think they'll avoid it for that reason in particular, but it still might be possible that they'll think of something.